Western Crete: Car Tours and Walks (Landscapes) |
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Jonnie Godfrey, Elizabeth Karslake
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Pages: 136 (Paperback)
ISBN: 185691335X
Pub: Sunflower Books
Pub date: 2008-03-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44093
Reader Reviews:
Excellent guide for walks or car tours (7/7 people found this helpful)
As well as describing the popular gorge walks and excursions, this book also takes you well off the beaten track into lovely alternative landscapes. We did many wonderful walks in solitude - unlike the Samaria Gorge walk! An enjoyable different guide that encourages you to explore on your own.
Mountainous regions and spectacular gorges (6/6 people found this helpful)
This book offers the reader a rich variety of landscape to marvel at and explore. The main walks include mountain treks, spectacualar gorges, and coastal walks, and through archaeological sites. Most walks are accessable by public transport from Chania (at least that was the case when we were there last June). However the car tours also offer a great deal of exploration. This book is a must have for all those visiting Western Crete.
Useful walking guide for first-time visitor (like me) (15/15 people found this helpful)
I bought three walking guides for a recent visit to Western Crete, and this was the nicest one: clear maps, good selection of walks of various lengths and in different kinds of terrain, nice mixture of the popular and the more quiet country lanes. We did five of the 31 included walks and found the descriptions clear and useful. The times that we went astray it was from not reading the instructions clearly enough, but hey, getting lost can be good fun too - though it was rather prickly!
I think this just beats the Hirner/Murbock walking guide, though that is pretty good too; and the Wilson White Mountains guide, which seems more geared towards the trekking community.
Only drawback - the book has helpful bus timetables in the back. Don't believe these, because you will stand by the stasi for a long time - they are quite out of date. Get the current months' timetable from Chania bus station, and you'll be OK!
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